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December 29, 2010
Ozzie Guillen's Son Rips Bobby Jenks: Oney Guillen, the son of Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, unloaded on reliever Bobby Jenks on Twitter over comments he made after signing a two-year, $12 million deal with the Boston Red Sox. Jenks: "I'm looking forward to playing for a manager who knows how to run a bullpen." Oney Guillen: "u say the manager didnt trust u? he kept putting ur fat ass there and u kept blowing it."
Given Guillen's reaction, the full quotation from Jenks provides a little more context:
"I'll always respect [Guillen] as a person and give him credit that's due," Jenks said. "But I want to play for a manager who trusts his relievers, regardless of what's going on."With the way Ozzie was talking this winter and the way he treated me, I don't want to fight with the guy. How many times did he question my ability, and then saying how he would love to have me back, but I would have to come to Spring Training and fight for the closer's role like anyone else?
"Why would I come back to that negativity?" Jenks said. "I'm looking forward to playing for a manager who knows how to run a bullpen."
posted by yerfatma at 03:16 PM on December 29, 2010
Hey Francona's just the guy to trust you, he'll leave you in there way beyond when he should.
posted by kokaku at 03:45 PM on December 29, 2010
Still remember Ozzie walking out to the mound to bring Jenks in and not tapping the right or left arm, but using both arms spread apart vertically and horizontally to signal: "the big fat guy".
Ozzie is a lot of things, some good, some not. But he's not a professional in the way he conducts himself and handles other people, so it's no surprise that junior has fallen off the low branch and is festering in the tall grass at the trunk of the tree.
posted by beaverboard at 04:06 PM on December 29, 2010
With the way Ozzie was talking this winter and the way he treated me, I don't want to fight with the guy. How many times did he question my ability, and then saying how he would love to have me back, but I would have to come to Spring Training and fight for the closer's role like anyone else?
I have no doubt that Jenks is a handful, but that quote rings true to me in regards to Ozzie. He seems like a fun manager when things are going well, but if things are going badly, not so much.
posted by justgary at 05:29 PM on December 29, 2010
People posting to Twitter who write like this will always read to me like 13yo boys at the keyboard. How old is this kid anyway?
posted by evixir at 09:49 PM on December 29, 2010
"Why would I come back to that negativity?" Jenks said.
I think Oney Guillen's son just put the exclamation point on that remark.
posted by Bonkers at 10:27 PM on December 29, 2010
Err, Oney Guillen, not Oney Guillen's son. Sorry.
posted by Bonkers at 02:18 AM on December 30, 2010
Hey Francona's just the guy to trust you, he'll leave you in there way beyond when he should.
The numbers don't seem to back that up, no matter how many people call 'EEI and talk about "Francoma".
posted by yerfatma at 01:56 PM on December 30, 2010
Yikes, seems like a fun kid. How have the White Sox not put the clamps down on him?
"hahah memo to bobby jenks get a clue u drink to much and u have had marital problems hugeee ones and the sox stood behind u"
Awesome. Also, I'm not sure what the author is getting at with his final line: why shouldn't the Red Sox have signed Jenks to be their secondary setup man? Maybe Jenks is cooked, but last year's numbers suggest he was the victim of a high BABIP, which is completely random.